Chapter 21

My plan to free the mander's wasn't working out to well, for starters the idiotic bug eyed things wouldn't stop jumping out and attacking me, secondly because all the dogs with the fleas, and the bad breath and posh little uniforms wouldn't stop bugging my friends and I to do stupid tasks for them like bring tea or packages! Some of them even wanted us to scratch them behind the ears and let me tell you, I had to draw the line. It was bad enough that they couldn't handle the man skirt wearing Cyclops but now they had to ask for that to?

No.

Hell no.

There was no way, not even for the glorious chance to display Ambrose's grape flavored socks to the resistance that I would EVER do that, but I'm getting off topic. We needed to stay focused, and to do that we had to split into groups, so that was why I was now running around with Julia, Toby, and Ellie on an epic mission to find the source of the mander's enslavement, and to do that we had to go to the most dangerous, most life threatening, deadliest place in all of Krokotopia…. The library. Oh woe is me! Why must we-ith go to the library? When thee-self could be busy kicking some Krok butt-eth? Oh woe, woe, woe….

Julia snorted and I looked up from my spot on the floor to face her, "What are you laughing at?" I muttered as I threw the probably ancient scroll to the floor.

She peered over her own scroll to face me, a smirk nearly identical to my own on her face, "Oh nothing… it's just the way you keep talking to yourself that's all…."

I raised an eyebrow at her, "What?"

"You keep talking in a ridiculous accent while you read," Toby coughed and straightened his back before beginning to mock me in a ridiculously high voice that sounded absolutely nothing like me, "And then thou great-eth ancestor of the last great Queen, Krokopatra enchanted the world of Krokotopia-dopia, enslaving thy mander's once and for all, so only the fall of the great-eth drag queen would free them!"

I snorted, "Well it's true… and if you're going to try and mock my voice Toby you should just use your own, trust me, you sound just like a girl."

Ellie giggled, "Good one Em!"

I rolled my eyes, "You sound just like Ellie Tobe's…."

His mouth dropped, "Wha- I do NOT sound like a GIRL!" his voice cracked, earning him another snort.

"Sounds like somebody's in denial~!" I said in a singsong voice before rising to place my scroll back on the shelf, and rethinking his mockery of myself. "Only the fall of the great-eth drag queen would free them!" I should have known she was behind all of this, the stupid reptile son of a-

"Emily?" Julia asked cautiously as I tensed up at her placed hand on my shoulder, "What's wrong?"

I tilted my head down as the memories from my early childhood flooded back at me: The hunt for ancient magic that had consumed most of our early childhood, the trek across the spiral that consumed our summers, traveling from one place to another until we had finally ended up in the Temple of Storms, with the ghost of Krokopatra advising my mother and father on the location of the- of the…. Is scrunched my nose up in thought, "What was that thing called?" I asked myself.

"What thing?" Ellie asked as she bounced up from her seat on the floor, causing her hair, which she now kept in pigtails to bounce.

I smirked at her childish behavior, "You know… the thing that…" I hesitated and gulped "mom and dad always searched for?"

Her eyes widened comically as she put her finger on her chin and, just like me, scrunched up her nose in thought, "You mean to Krokonomicon?" she asked after a moment of thought.

I swear I could have sweat dropped just then, it sounded like she was referring to a Comic convention, which let's face it, didn't exist in this world, it didn't even exist in wizard city. It only existed on that place called earth, that place the Krok's had originally come from.

Wait… earth….

Julia, Toby, and Ellie all perked up at my thought which I had been unknowingly let drift out of my mental block.

"Emily, I think you're on to something…" Toby smirked as he picked up his scroll and slid it into its designated spot, heh that sounds wrong….

Everyone sweat dropped.

"What?" I asked as I shrugged, taking in their dumbfounded looks "It just does okay!"

"I think Em's been spending too much time around the other life students…." Julia muttered out loud as Taylor, who was paired up with Kyle and Alia thought back at all of us her latest report,

"We're moving onto the palace of fire, just managed to get past a few of those Krok prince dudes in the miniskirts with the funky hats… and really Em?"

"Wha-?"

"You're laughing; we're trying to be serious here so tell me, what just happened that's so funny?"

" Widdle Emy couldn't keep her thoughts in check and let her dirty mind slip that's what." Julia intercepted the conversation, a silly grin still etched on her face, "You just need to hear what she said…"

"It's not that funny!" my face flushed a bright red

"Yeah, more like embarrassing…" Toby thought and Julia couldn't withhold her snicker.

"Come on Tobes, you have to admit-"

"Okay guys! That's enough, why don't we just move on and let me tell you my idea!"I snapped and everyone instantly grew silent.

"Emily… you seem rather on edge what were you thinking of?" Taylor thought hesitantly as a solemn grin split wide across my features

"I was thinking…that we take a little trip to earth." I thought mischievously, "Find out a bit more about these Kroks then what we can learn with just the slant of these magical history books."

Everyone was struck into silence,

"Erm… Emily you don't honestly mean…?" Toby asked cautiously

"We're going back to Wizard City today, bro; we're all going to have to split up." I nodded in confirmation causing several of my siblings to exclaim in protest.

"But we can't!" Julia snapped, causing the air around her to crackle with energy.

"Our orders are to work our way through Krokotopia!" Ellie piped up hesitantly before fading back into the back round of the outraged and scandalized shouts.

"Emily, we can't just go running off into worlds we know absolutely nothing about! We don't understand their money system or the types of magic they have-" Toby nodded hastily

"Not to mention the fact that we'd be going completely into enemy territory and we can only go through a portal to get back home when old Merle-y sends us one." Taylor finished up with a sigh

My face was completely straight as I thought through what they said. After several long moments of thought I came up with my answer, "I don't care what you have to say about this you guys, I think… no… know that we have to go there, there might be something we can use to take out the Krok's once and for all, all of them in one false swoop, it'll be so quick they won't even have time to make themselves into mummy's."

All of their eyes, spare Taylors, widened comically as I grabbed my bag off the floor and headed towards the exit, "You guys can come if you want! I'll wait in old Beardy's house for one hour before I go!"

Toby snorted, "He won't let you through, your to reckless-"

I spun around on my heel and gave him a mischievous wink, "Oh Toby, I think you'll find that he will, can be extremely persuasive you know." I laughed once more before the door shut behind me and I cut myself off from my siblings, this was going to be very interesting indeed…. Very, very, interesting….

A/N: Go ahead, kill me, carve out my guts and spew them all over the floor, I'm guilty! My procrastination skills have been on overkill lately its driving me over the edge of insanity! _ of course that's no excuse for my UNREASONABLY late update, so I'll give you the actual and full story of WHY I was late updating: Kyle and I sort of fell apart as friends and he told my friend Miranda that I was a bitch. Gutless shrimp. Meh… anyways after that traumatizing and friendship ending name calling I've decided to grow past that and continue on with this story! There will just be some minor changes to it!

So tell me what you think in your reviews that will help to save the spiral from Malistaire's insane need for destruction! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! Now I'm off to proceed on my quest to level 70! Sayonara!

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